Gaming the World : : How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture / / Lars Rensmann, Andrei S. Markovits.
Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Going Global-Sports, Politics, and Identities
- Chapter 2. The Emergence of Global Arenas: Mapping the Globalization of Sports Cultures between Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Localism
- Chapter 3. The Transatlantic Transfer of Sports and their Cultures: Institutionalization and Diffusion
- Chapter 4. A Silent "Feminization" of Global Sports Cultures? Women as Soccer Players in Europe and America
- Chapter 5. A Counter-Cosmopolitan Backlash? The Politics of Exclusion, Racism, and Violence in European and American Sports Cultures
- Chapter 6. The Limits of Globalization: Local Identity and College Sports' Uniquely American Symbiosis of Academics and Athletics
- Conclusion
- List of Acronyms
- Index